They act as Emergency Responders with us. The southern ute have been an incredible and incredibly diligent and being embedded in our command center, working on this. The professionalism has been wonderful, so we will make sure they are properly reimbursed for expenses. The 2nd process is the claims process, what damages have it occurred, and we use the federal claims tort act in order to process those claims. How does the federal tort claims act help the navajo . They lost a huge amount of irrigating water which can have longterm devastating effects of drought continues and they do not have the water now or in the future . How can they be made whole . Two things that are happening here as well. We are talking to the navajo about how they get reimbursed. We need to work with the president as well as the Navajo Nation epa to reimbursed for their expenses. The 2nd issue is the claim process. I want to make sure that we are all aware that the reimbursement process is quite different. While
There was pressure buildup at the Gold King Mine. They made a judgment that turned out to be wrong. Whether constitutes Due Diligence and factors, thats what the department will have to advise us. We will follow up to see if there were mistakes made, if they could have avoided this or if there was other mistakes. Thank you. I read a long and detailed testimony to be offered later he points out concerns about the 3 million gallons but also about whats coming in the years to come and the Navajo Nation will need. Is there any reason to think that this is more than the trigger for this attention . I think it has raised visibility of these issues in a way that im hoping something good can come out of it so we will be better off in terms of how we manage these sites moving forward. Weve been working with the navajo for years. We will continue to do that. We will address concerns that they have identified as best we can. We now know the water may not be at the level it needs to be so that we
The deadly crash of an amtrak train in philadelphia, a body was pulled from the wreckage today. We have a team of reporters following the latest developments. Lisa stark is in washington for us. We begin with johnter rat who is in philadelphia. Where do things stand at this hour . Well, tony, good afternoon from philadelphia where there are News Conferences scheduled for 2 15 and 5 00. Well be reporting those as they happen. Giving you the latest information. For now were basing everything on a News Conference that happened a couple of three hours now. In that News Conference, one of the Board Members revealed that they have already found and removed and already downloading data from what he called an event reporterrecorder. And they also have a forwardlooking dash cam in the cab of the engine thats derailed and separated from the other cars. Were told all of that is downloaded. I think the implication is that we may have early indication, early indication of what may have gone wrong 1
Pueblo leaders traveled to Washington D.C. this week to meet with federal officials in an effort to prevent the federal government from overturning a buffer zone preventing new oil and gas, or uranium, leases within a 10-mile radius of Chaco Culture National Historical Park. Following the announcement of a 20-year moratorium on mineral leasing on […]